There Is Sunshine When You’re Gone

With the haze gone, the sun is shining bright and hot today. Even the plants and flowers need hosing down. This is actually an inverted image of a landscaped garden at the Putrajaya Flower and Garden Festival or Floria Putrajaya 2013.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f6.3, 1/4000 sec.

There Is Sunshine When You're Gone

Hazy Sun

The South-East-Asian region is choked in smoke originating from illegal forest fires and large-scale agricultural burning in Indonesia. An annual affair, the transboundary air pollution is causing health and social-economic problems for affected countries.

With the haze, I was able to photograph the sun directly without using a ND filter. A neutral density filter is a glass filter that cuts down the light, enabling a lower shutter speed or wider aperture. The thick haze acts as one.

Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1/1250 sec.

Hazy Sun